The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has today launched a new study to determine whether mpox (monkeypox) can be transmitted asymptomatically, by people without any obvious symptoms. The £1 million PResymptomatIc MonkEypox (PRIME) study, funded by the Medical Research Council, is asking anyone in England aged 18 years or over who knows they have been in close sexual contact with an mpox case to come forward to participate. Participants will be asked to complete a short questionnaire about previous exposures to people with mpox, their vaccination status and will be asked to do a self-collection blood test to check whether they have developed antibodies to mpox.

https://www.miragenews.com/uk-gov-seeks-participants-for-asymptomatic-mpox-1069791/

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